So it’s been two winters since I last set my bootprints on any Asian soil. Being all ‘yang’ (as in yin and yang/hot and cold) et all, Asian summers are simply way too hot and humid for me; a winter trip is the only way I’d cross the Pacific out of my own freewill. Anyhooo, it was… Read More →
Continuing with what we started last week, here’s yet another vintage white porcelain rice bowl of Tokusatsu [wiki definition: Tokusatsu (特撮) is a Japanese term that applies to any live-action film or television drama that usually features superheroes and makes considerable use of special effects (tokusatsu literally translates as "special filming" in Japanese).] Can u say… AWESOMENESS!!!? YEP! It’s ミラーマン or Mirrorman, the… Read More →
Time for Some Chirashi Sushi Rice, Anyone? OK, perhaps not, cuz the bowl is… EMPTY! But ain’t this just an awesome vintage kaiju bowl that would’ve been perfect for any rice… or noodle? Released back in the days when USD was still the king currency (or so we thought) by far, an educated guess… Read More →
Set your time machine for 10 years ago and head for Chinatown in Toronto, Canada… then there you have it! ’Fenfir’, an unlicensed Ghidorah toy. About 8″ tall, made of hard plastic (cheap!) instead of the more expensive vinyl/sofubi that we’ve all come to love and covet. It walks while the wings flap and mouths open… Read More →
Never been to Paris you say? Never mind that, we’ll introduce a little bit of France to ya via work of Ajee, a talented French female artist/designer who was one of the 2 secret artist of the French Dunny series. Says Ajee in her bio: I’m a french designer. I live in… Read More →
For those whom are not familiar with the Japanese Tokusatsu 特撮 (Sci-Fi/special effect) TV Series Kamen Rider「仮面ライダー」, life must’ve been a little dull, a little less exciting, a little gray and boring… not that they’d realized it anyway since one cannot really miss what they don’t know. But that is just another sad story of life… Originally… Read More →
Speaking of pink, the ‘color of love’, one may immediately associate it with cuddly and cute, the softer gender of the two, nice and fluffy, all things nice and feminine… so on and so forth. What would the cupids of Valentine’s and bunnies of Easter do if such colors of pinkish hues do not exist? We shudder… Read More →
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